Transfer Photos from iPhone to Computer

You can easily transfer Photos from your iPhone to your computer, and the process is very similar whether you are on a Mac or PC. The Mac treats the iPhone like a digital camera, and Windows can treat the iPhone as either a digital camera or a file system, depending on how the photos are accessed. Regardless of what OS you are using, to get started you will need your iPhone, the included USB cable, and a computer to plug the device into.

If you want to jump directly to the transferring photo guides on this page for OS X or PC, use these links:

There are a few means of copying pictures from iOS to computers, we’ll cover more than one each so that you can decide which method is appropriate for you. We’ll cover the Mac OS X methods of how to copy pictures from an iPhone to a Mac first, and then how to copy pictures from iPhone to Windows methods second.

For OS X, the fastest and simplest way to copy pictures from an iPhone to a Mac is with Image Capture and Preview. We’ll discuss how with both apps.

Using Image Capture to Import Photos in OS X

Image Capture is a fast and efficient way to pull photos off the iPhone, which treats the device as a digital camera:

Open Image Capture from the /Applications/ directory (or through Launchpad)

Connect the iPhone to the Mac through USB

Select a folder from the menu (default is Pictures folder) and then click “Import All”

OR: Select individual photos, and click “Import” to only copy those pictures over

Image Capture is my preferred method because it’s fast, efficient, no frills, and allows users to quickly and easily copy the images from an iPhone (or iPad, or any camera), directly to the Mac. You simply choose where in the file system to copy the pictures, and it transfers them for you.

You can also transfer pictures to your Mac with Photos app, iPhoto, or Preview, which is just as simple and actually has a virtually identical interface for initiating the transfer. Here is how to import with Preview:

Copying Photos to the Mac with Preview in OS X

Though Preview is usually thought of as an image viewer, it can also serve as a fast importer:

Plug your iPhone into your Mac

Launch Preview

From the File menu navigate down and select “Import from iPhone…”

Select “Import All” to get all the pictures, otherwise individually select pictures and click ‘Import’

Look in your ~/Pictures/ folder for the photos from your iPhone

Optionally: Click the checkbox with “Delete after import” if you want to delete the photos after they have been copied over to the computer.

The benefit of using either Preview or Image Capture is that these apps are on virtually every version of OS X since from the very beginning of the OS, so you won’t find a Mac version without them. iPhoto on the other hand is generally limited to the consumer model Macs, thus making it not always available on pro models, but it does work as well, and iPhoto will also serve as a photo manager of sorts.

On a Windows PC the easiest way to get pictures from your iPhone is to just use Windows Explorer, but there are two ways to go about this. In either case, unlock the iPhone before beginning, or else the photos may not be visible.

Using Windows Plug & Play to Transfer Pictures from iPhone to Computer

This utilizes the AutoPlay pop-up that shows by default in Windows when a device is connected to the computer by way of USB. This is the easiest way to access and copy pictures from iPhone to a Windows PC:

Plugin your iPhone to the computer without iTunes running

Wait for the AutoPlay popup asking you what you want to do with the device

Select “View Content” or choose a device option like ‘Import pictures and videos’

Find your photos through the folders that are displayed

Copy the images from Windows as usual

Note that in Windows 10, Windows 7, and Windows 8, you will often find the iPhone mounted under “Portable Devices” but it can also be found listed under “Digital Camera”. Opening either will work to copy the pictures over, but typically Digital Camera opens directly to the DCIM directory whereas Portable Devices will sometimes require minor navigation within the folder to copy the files.

Using iPhone as Digital Camera in Windows Explorer to Transfer Images

If your iPhone is already plugged into the PC, you can also try this method:

Open “My Computer”

Find the iPhone, it will appear as any other camera would

Open iPhone to find your Photos

Select the pictures you want to copy to your computer and copy/paste them into the desired location on your PC

The Windows approach treats the iPhone more like a file system, just like it does with standard digital cameras that are connected to a PC. That generally makes Windows even easier for moving pictures back and forth if you like to cut & paste things directly from one folder to another in My Pictures or My Documents. Nonetheless, you can also use your favorite photo importing application to pull the pictures from the device as well.

Remember, if the iPhone pictures are not showing up in Windows, make sure the iPhone is unlocked first. Otherwise the iPhone will be found in ‘My Computer’ but all of the content on it will be invisible and inaccessible. If you run into that, all you need to do is touch the iPhone, unlock the screen and enter the passcode, and all of your stuff will be visible as expected.

Finally, you can also sync your photos using just iTunes on either Mac OS or Windows but that is more for iPhone backup purposes and doesn’t really serve as a means of accessing individual pictures.

Thank you Mikey for repeating the advice here. I do not know where you read it from originally, but after I read yours, it works for mine too.” Make sure IPhone is unlocked.” just as simple. thanks to all who shares information.

I too had the same problem but connecting I phone with camera on condition helped. Then it appears on win 7. The iphone shall have to unlocked for camera to be on, incase there is password to unlock it, for some users.

My phone somehow locked me out & I never created a password. Is there a way to download the photos onto my computer. Itunes is not accepting it. Apple tech support says they have to wipe everything out on my phone. I must keep my photos! Any ideas. Apple tech says there may be a 3rd party means to do it, but they just can’t approve it.

Hi, i am unable to transfer photos from my iphone to my laptop…i cnnected both via data cable..opened my computer…i could view iphone camera..i opened it internal storage and than DCIM…but it shows 0 items…but if i right click and view properties it show some space used…can anyone help how do i transfer my iphone photos to laptop…thanks…

Sorry my computer posted before I was finished. I read on another forum that you can use iphoto? But the method above worked great for me! It was very helpful. I even found the debate on PC verses Mac below entertaining. Although I’m pretty oblivious…I thought PC stood for “politically correct”? Who knew! ;-)

No, rich got it wrong. Consider Mac’s own advertising campaign against all non mac machines… they’re referred to as PC’s…! Even Mac makes the distinction between itself and pc’s… I think we all comprehend the fact that the acronym “PC” literally stands for “personal computer”, however, in the portion of the public sphere that is not stupid, we who have normal reasoning capabilities are able to connect the dots between the usage of the term “PC” and its correlation to non-mac computers.

“we who have normal reasoning capabilities are able to connect the dots between the usage of the term “PC” and its correlation to non-mac computers. ”

F you,
If I made a car called dyorkisamoron, then advertised it as “It’s not a car, it’s a dyorkisamoron” it would still be a car. A Mac uses the same components as any other personal computer, it does the same thing as any other personal computer, and it is, by definition, a personal computer.

Of course Apple wants us to think of their machine as a category for itself, it makes it sound way more exclusive. If you tell me that you’ve bought a new mac, then I’ll know that it sure wasn’t Asus. If you tell me that you’ve bought a new PC, I’ll wonder if it was an Apple machine, or an Acer machine, etc. A PC can run MacOS, Windows, Linux, or it can have no OS at all. A PC can be big as a fridge, or fit in your pocket.

So it is not only technically that mac is a PC – we who actually know what we’re talking about use the term PC for any PC, because it is a PC.

Just like a potato is a potato,
and the Bamberg potato is one of the many different types of potatoes.

Not even Apple refer to their products as PC and male the distinction in all their comparative marketing.

Apple Macintosh originated from different hardware and was always incompatible by design. The term PC was coined when IBM Personal Computers and their clones were available. At no time was the term PC ever used in reference to an Apple product because it was not IBM Compatible. You cannot simply start referring to an Apple as a PC now that it has an Intel chipset or because it is a personal computer.

IBM coined “PC” much the same as Kimberly-Clark coined “Kleenex.” Kleenex is not the same as Puffs – they are both facial tissues, but everyone calls them Kleenex by default because Kleenex used to be the only brand around.
Hence, a Mac is not a PC, but they are both micro computers.

then why do the MAC official commercials say this is mac and this is a PC, just saying OFFICIALLY they are different according to APPLE so im going with what they say OFFICIALLY not anyone spouting comments

Actually, Macs have intel chips as well, and many “PCs” use AMD chips. The common view is that “PC” means either anything not Mac OS based OR anything Windows based, depending on who you ask. But technically, Macs ARE PCs if you use the literal translation of the term.

Apple Macintosh originated from different hardware and was always incompatible by design. The term PC was coined when IBM Personal Computers and their clones were available. At no time was the term PC ever used in reference to an Apple product because it was not IBM Compatible. You cannot simply start referring to an Apple as a PC now that it has an Intel chipset or because it is a personal computer.

A PC means Personal Computer… it is a computer built around a microprocessor for use by an individual, as in an office or at home or school or anywhere else a person would want to use it. A MAC is not an exemption to this…

it uses the same specs as of any pc in the world… the only difference is the program or software(OS) that runs it…. MORON!

Snow Leopard, that is quite the unsupported opinion you are spewing. I feel as though the inclusion of your opinion here is completely unhelpful in this situation. I’m sure many people would prefer if you would just keep your uninformed opinion to yourself, seeing as your complete ignorance is distracting to those trying to work towards a solution. Please just continue beating off to a picture of a half-eaten apple, since that seems to be what you enjoy doing (given the wording of your opinion, of course).

If you were of an age to remember, you would know that Apple INVENTED personal computers with the Apples I & II. However, coming late to the game, IBM launched their offering and called it the IBM PC (notice the capitalization!) Of course, it was meant to denote that they had invented the personal computer (notice the UNcapitalization). Since then anything (and I do mean anything) that followed the same open (wide open) architecture, has taken on the hybrid name Personal Computer (note the capitalization).
When Steve acquired the rights from Xerox to adapt the desktop analogy to personal computers, Apple called them Macintoshes (or Macs) so that no one would mistake them for PCs with all their shortcomings, as YOU did.
Bill Gates and MS, as they have always done, then copied a good thing, the desktop analogy to create Windows. This saved the PC world from imploding to the superior Macs.
But any idiot that insists that a Mac is a Personal Computer is just WRONG. Certainly a Mac is a personal computer, in fact more so than any Windows machine… they are as impersonal as any device can be.

They need to build upon this program and integrate it with itunes to make photo files able to be transfered both ways.

Kindof like how you can see your pages and apps in itunes, they really need to make a desktop viewer of your iphone’s photos. Drag and drop into albums, create albums, etc. Expecting people to sync through iphoto or build folders and sync those is seriously absurd.

That should be their next major priority, not a iOS update, but a serious overhaul in how you manage its files with itunes.

i want to be able to just select specfic photos from my iphone on to my desktop of my powerbook , how the hell can i do that , before i lose my mind . I have to keep importing all photos , cus thats the only option that comes up …wtf

On my iPhone(4) The import all button isn’t there. I’m trying to import about 600 pictures and I can’t highlight them all. On image capture it just stops and says a number. eg. 534 remaining. Please help!!!

Thumbs up for Diana !!
I happened to stumble upon this ‘solution’ when I was doing something else (checking the songs on my iPh’ I think) and a pop-up appeared and ‘spilled the beans’. So I thought : “WTF? maybe that goes for the photo’s too… and Eureka!”

I wonder how many people get stuck just because of this (lack of) information ?? Quite hillarious actually, except for those who can’t find it…

Goes to show… usually it’s not the one you pay that helps you the most!

I have this exact problem down to every detail you described!! Was working perfectly fine automatically synching now suddenly only appears in Itunes, etc., can’t get the pic’s off. Did you find a solution?

Select ‘Provisioning Profiles’
Click ‘Add’ on the top right corner.
It will open up a new window:
> select ‘Computer’ icon on the right
> under Portable devices: double click on your iPhone name

You will see ‘Internal Storage’ > double click on it
> you will see the folder ‘DCIM’ > double click on it
> you will then see the folder ‘800AAAAA’ (note: not sure if your folder’s name is the same but it should be fine even if name is different)
> Under ‘Files of type:’ select All files

double click on the folder ‘800AAAAA’, you will see all the photos on the iPhone

I have an iPhone 4 and am using a virtualized desktop (no laptop, no desktop, just a thin client). I’ve connected my phone to the Wyse thin client, and opened Windows to download photos from my iPhone, but cannot see the photos anywhere. Are the instructions below for someone using a Mac or PC? If a PC, I should be able to follow these instrucitons on my thin client but I don’t see “iphone configuration utility.” Can anyone help me download these 200 photos? Windows tells me there are no photos on the phone but I see them clear as day.

Hi… every time I try to copy and paste the pics from my iPhone (in the correct folders and file), it gives me the pop-up that the ‘access was refused’. How to sort this out? This way I haven’t managed to copy any of my pics yet. :-S

my home PC has died with all my personal photos…they are synched to my iphone…anyone know how i can copy all photos (not just those from my cameral roll) from my iphone to another PC that is authorized under my itunes account?

Hi just out of curiosity, i was wondering if anyone got back to you on this, as exactly the same thing happened to me, and i don’t want to lose the pics in the albums on my phone. I can get the pics from the camera roll no problem, but can’t seem to get the albums.

i have 3gs. i have windows 7. when i plug iphone into pc.. nothing happens except that it says my driver isn’t installed properly.. my friend gave me this pc.. i don’t know why this error comes up.. but if i wan to i can open and use itunes with no problem..

Wow, thanks for this tip. I usually import into iPhoto and leave them on my iPhone. I never thought to look in Preview to do this. Over the years, I’ve accumulated photos I no longer want and using Preview to delete them is quick and easy. If you open the camera roll on the phone while using Preview to delete, you can watch them disappear.

The ‘import all’ feature flat out does not work on my preview. It reads the iPhone just fine but it only imports one image at at time, and it eliminates the file name forcing me to create a name for the document rather than using the existing IMG_000.JPG name the file already had.

When I imported the pics and video from my iphone 4 to my laptop, all of the videos flipped to their side– thus making watching them less than enjoyable… They were taken right side up — I swear… Anyone know what I can do to flip them back to up & down?!

I have Windows 7. Open Windows Explorer then ->computer then ->iPhone. RIGHT CLICK on iPhone and choose “import pictures”. Then a pop up box will appear and give you the option to erase them from your phone after copying to computer. What a backwards way to import them. Apple needs to fix this.

1. I have a 3GS I-phone that isn’t connected to a subscript ion and I would like to download my pictures. Is it impossible or must I have a subscription?
2. When I plugged in my 3GS I-phone, my computer doesn’t recognize the I-phone. Is there anyway of getting around this?
3. Diana (see above) indicated that you must unlock the phone but did not indicate how you unlock it. Can you tell me how its done? (When I click on start and try to find my phone, it shows everything except my camera (I-phone). What gives?
4. When I type quickly on my laptop, my cursor jumps to another field (area) on the computer. Is it case sensitive or is there something that I’m doing (clicking on a comma, for example) that activates another command? It is quite frustrating because I cannot type as fast as I’d like because I find out later that my cursor is on another sentence.

I have tried all of these sugestions. I used to pull photos off of my 3G through windows explorer all the time, but none of this has worked on my new i4.
Stupid phone!!!
The iPhone configuration will not even open on my computer. Any other suggestions out there????

I followed these directions provided early on in this set of posts and was able to get my photos off my iphone. However, I had previously deleted photos after “backing up” my iphone through itunes thinking that transferred the photos onto my computer. I cannot find them. So, does this mean that the “backup” is not accessible unless I restore the phone?

I am becoming extremely bored trolling through arguments, that are basically semantic, in order to have someone confirm an idea i have (wether large or small) is this an age thing? Though i have now strayed from the topic myself now i was feeling desperate to tell you all to leave it out. It is not useful and even less entertaining. We know PC means Personal Computer but we also know that when someone says Mac or PC they dont mean Mac or Toenail, Egg or armchair or any somesuch. Lets get on with it, shall we?

I plug in my iPhone to my PC-
There comes a noise acknowledging the connection but I don’t see any symbol in ‘My Computer’ indicating that the iPhone is actually connected!!!
How can I dowload pictures from the iPhone to my PC????? (iTunes can’t help me there either!!!)

I just got an I-phone 4 and synched it for the first time to my Mac. I didn’t take the photos from my phone and put in I-tunes, it took the photos on my mac and put on my phone. Now I have 2000 photos on phone that I can’t get rid of. Anyone know how to switch the sync and delete the photos? There is not trashcan with the imported photos…

ok, when i go to Preview > file , there isnt an Import photos from iPhone option. am i just stupid, or….?

ps I have 2,755 photos on my 3g iPhone camera roll. i cant even sync an app to my phone. had to delete 50+ pics just to download a song. I cant do anything until i GET THESE STUPID PHOTOS OUT OF MY PHONE. …ugh…

On my iPhone 4 I have around 14,000 photos and now I would like to get them copies/transferred to my new iMac computer. Due to earlier copying/importing to another PC about 11,000 of the photos are filed in “albums” on my iPhone and those photos are not visible on neither my iMac or Windows PC, so I can’t transfer them. Help!
(only the about 3000 photos on the “camera roll” can be found and transferred to the iMac and Windows PC).
Thanks

iphone is reconised in windows xp click on it shows no pictures right click and go to get pictures i get an error right click and go to properties i get an error if i open itunes it dosent show photos under the device if i click on device it allowes me to inport pics to the phone but not export from the phone. pissing me off any help please first time phone was connect poped up do u want to import pictures now it dosent do it. can it be a setting i click on the computer to block this

Ive always connected usb cable from ipod touch to Win 7 to copy off photos, but today when i did it, it shows the original 520 photos, but doesnt show the most recent 30 at all as if they dont exist, yet they do exist on the itouch and work perfectly. What could be happening? Anyone have this problem? What is the fix? Ive been testing and it seems that NO NEW photos added to my itouch can be copied off ever again. Really sad. Im starting to hate Apple. Any suggestions?

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This might work for some of you running windows 7 / 64, Start>open devices and printers, right click for properties of either of (Apple iPhone) under Devices or (Apple Mobile) under Unspecified, Hardware>properties>Driver>Uninstall then replug your iPhone/USB and let the driver install alone, worked for me…. good luck to you all

I agree this is a non-issue, and I agree that a Mac is a type of PC. However, nobody ever actually SAYS “a Mac PC” do they? And the common usage of “PC” to mean “PC which is not a Mac” has probably earned the status of secondary definition by now.

My issue is I have a windows xp home edition and before I wiped my computer I took all the photos and added them to my iphone now I am trying to take them off and I cant! I need to update my iphone and cant do it or it will wipe all my photo’s!!! So when I go into my photos on my iphone 4 there are 2 albums one from when I imported the pics from my computer called photo library and the other one holds the pics from what I take from my phone called camera roll. It made 2 separate folders in my one photo album. HELP! I need to get off 3391 photos from my phone!

I have an iPhone, and a Mac. I’m trying to get my photos off my iPhone. I’ve tried your directions in Preview three times already. Nothing happens after I select all my photos, and click import. Am I doing something wrong?

I’m getting kind of frustrated with Apple, seems like they often sacrifice the functionality of their products for look. Why the hell is it so hard to get my photos off of my phone?

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To get in on the debate on the use of the term PC. I realize that PC stands for Personal Computer. But it actually is short for IBM PC, which was a specific brand. Unlike Apple (Mac), which was proprietary, IBM opened up it’s technology and therefore there were IBM PC-compatible computers, which was shortened to PC-compatible, then to PC. So based on the history of the term, that is why a PC & a Mac are actually considered 2 different things.

Because something is more difficult to use doesn’t make it for “smart people”. In fact, if you were a smart person, and you had the choice between 2 machines, one being easier to use, you would certainly choose the easier machine. That’s really just common sense.
Opting for something that’s more difficult solely for the sake of it being more difficult is stupid. That is what a stupid person would do.

By the way, I use both Mac and PC. So I don’t really care. I’m just saying whoever wrote this comment is pretty dumb.

OK- have tried as directed (to copy photos on iphone from PC) but when opening IPhone file from a PC – the file displayed nothing – nothing in file… no photos, etc… although I have 300 photos on iphone.
Do I need to change a setting on the iphone?

Just tried the article suggestion to upload my iPhone pix using Preview, but it only allowed me to load one photo at a time. I had 268, so I tried iPhoto on my Mac, and it automatically recognized my “camera” so I clicked “Import All.”

This worked, except when the phone locked, so I had to keep unlocking my phone to continue uploading the pix. One solution to this would be to extend the time for auto-locking the phone.

I wanted to avoid using the iTunes setup since I think you have to sign up for iCloud first or some other kind of extra steps – too complicated. Plus, I don’t want to have my photos floating around in cyberspace – no privacy.

Conclusion: iPhoto works great, just make sure to keep your phone unlocked or it pauses during the uploading process. Good luck, everyone!

I saved my iPhone photos to my Mac using the directions above. Came back later hoping to save subsequent files in the same way, but all that appears in the box are the photos I had previously saved. Why don’t I see the newer ones?

A Mac is a small hamburger (without the Big) a PC is a British Policeman (Police Constable) a computer is an instrument that prints money for the late Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. A computer nerd is a semi human drowning in a sea of information

Easiest way is to have a dropbox account. (Dropbox.com) once u set up an account u can put the app on your iphone. Its great cause u never have to connect your phone to your computer. It will just transfer you photos into a folder on your computer automatically when you want it to. Its kinda like icloud but u can store lots more and its easy acess to them on your computer.

I needed to remove 450 photos from my iphone to my computer. I plugged in my iphone and via windows ( I followed the instruction on the box that poped up and cliked to erase pictures from iphone when download was completed.) I cannot find my pictures on the computer and they are no longer in my iphone. Can you help to find my pictures?

The easiest way I found to transfer as many photos as I want from Iphone into mac is to connect the phone. Then, you need to launch the Preview application, go to file and export as many photos as you want to a specific file. Hope this helps.

omg – This was so dang simple I can’t believe how much time I’ve spent cursing Apple and looking for a way to save photos taken with my iPhone.
I use Windows Explorer constantly for other things … don’t know why this didn’t occur to me. Solved a big problem, now non-existent. THANK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

My iPhone automatically goes to the document to place photos because it set itself to do that and I have no clue how to unset it. and it’s always blank when I open it via the “my computer” settings even if it is unlocked D: how do i fix this T_T

When I plug my iphone into my computer. a pop doesn’t come up. The first time I ever plugged it in, a pop up did show, but then a day or so later I plugged it in again wanting to save photo’s but there was no pop up? and there still is no pop up coming up??

Hi, I have a quick question; maybe my “Preview” program is not quite up to date. Rather than “Import from iPhone” it says “Import images,” which is obviously not a problem, but it was my first clue that something would be slightly different. More importantly, I see no “Select all” option and I cannot use the command or shift keys to select multiple images. Am I really going to have to import only one image at a time??

I gotta tell ya, I am frustrated….I took a bunch of photo’s of our church after I decorated it for Christmas, plus a few Christmas Block Parties we did for the kids in the neighborhood, now I can’t get them off of my phone so I can print them and put them in our photo album. My computer is recognising the phone, but it is not showing any of the photo’s I have in my gallery. How do I fix this? I don’t want to lose these pics!!!!!!!!!Someone please help.

i am having trouble with my pics on my iphone, i am trying to import them to my computer to open up more room on my phone, but i am not having any luck what so ever, i thought i was doing it right but then after i thought i was successful i looked at my phone in the camera area and i saw it copied my pics and then added them back in like triple and copies, and it isnt letting me delete the ones it added what do i do?? please any advice would help me out greatly.

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Plug the iPhone to computer and begin transferring photos to PC by treating the iPhone as a moveable disk is the easiest way!

But if you don’t bring the data cable, what should you do? To transfer the photos from iPhone/iPad/iPod without cable, Dropbox is a good tool to help.

The steps are:

1. Install Dropbox app onto both your iPhone and your PC.
2. Then open the Dropbox app on your iPhone and switch to the Uploads tab.
3. Press the + icon at the top left corner and select the photos you need to transfer.

My phone is plugged in and unlocked but doesn’t show up at all when I go into “Computer” I followed another websites advice by having my phone plugged in, and opening windows live photo gallery and choosing the option to import photos but once again my phone does not show up as a device I can import from, only my printer shows up.. Is there anything I’m doing wrong or haven’t done so that it will work?

someone please help.
I’ve done all this. I have too many pictures and need them off pronto. I’ve “unlocked the phone” and plugged it in and tried to “close itunes” but it automatically pops up every time my iphone is plugged in. I can’t open the device in documents and I’m so confused for what to do. I’ve tried for hours.

Either.
Maybe I should use some transfer tools. Please recommend some tools which can transfer photos from iPhone to PC, so far I just find the FonePaw iOS Transfer. Er… It’s OK enough. But I want much tools for instead.

Thank you so much! New Mac owner, was being driven to distraction by the horrible articles Mac had on the subject. No, I do not want my photos stored in a “library” file, I want access to my actual image files so I can access them regardless of OS. These instructions worked to get the actual files transferred over. You rule.

I had a old I phone 6s that I lost but when I bought a new I phone 7 all the old photos from that phone came up on new phone but when I plug the new phone into computer it only recognises the photos taken on the new phone not old photos

Guys, just do us all a favor: if you have a mac you know that procedures are different from a windows pc/any pc. Therefore, it’s helpful for those on a mac to avoid instructions/remedies for pcs because it’s simply not the same! So get over it, and say PC if it’s not a mac, and say mac if it is a mac!!!!

Yes anne, if you read this article you will find there are different procedures for transferring photos from iPhone to a Mac versus to a PC. You have to READ THE ARTICLE to find that though, not just comment.

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